Question

Transcribe the following words and indicate the syllable structure by placing a period between the syllables. (Hint: In order to find out where the syllable boundaries are, you need to follow the rules indicated in class and draw the tree structure; however, for this exercise you do not have to hand in the trees.) (a) Hindi; (b) resent; (c) praying; (d) dinosaurs; (e) depth; (f) explanation

Answer 1

ANSWER :-

Here we need to transcribe the following words.

(a) How many syllables in Hindi

answer:- 2 syllables

(b) How many syllables in resent

answer:-  2 syllables

(c) How many syllables in praying

answer:-  2 syllables

(d) How many syllables in dinosaurs

  answer:- 3 syllables

(e) How many syllables in word depth

  answer:- 1 syllable

(f) How many syllables in explanation

    answer:- 4 syllables